Our Sponsor Child

One of the things I have enjoyed most about my new waiting hobby is to regularly check in with the kiddos at various foster care facilities throughout China.  There are some amazing folks doing amazing things for the children who would otherwise languish in orphanages.  They take in sick children in desperate need of medical attention and provide them with the love, nurturing and medical care they need to grow and thrive.  These foster homes are operated by various charities and rely mainly on donations to provide food, housing and medical procedures for the children in their care.  Almost all of them have websites to post photos, video and information about their children and to provide those who wish to help an avenue to make donations and sponsor children.

One of the charities I follow closely is the New Day Foster Home in Beijing.  They have a twenty-one bed facility for special needs kids to call home while they await or recover from medical procedures and then to be matched with their forever family.  These folks are so incredibly dedicated to transforming the lives of these children and preparing them for their new life.  In addition, they run a healing home to help critically ill children -- children who might otherwise die -- through their surgery and recovery.  They also have a foster family program in three different areas of China where families take children in to their homes to help them heal, grow and learn.

All this waiting has left me with plenty of time to follow all of these amazing children as they thrive under the love and care of these charities.  I just felt like I needed to do something to help, so I decided to sponsor a child at the New Day Healing Home.   Her name is Melody and she is only six months old.  She was abandoned at the hospital the day she was born and came in to the care of New Day just a few months ago to prepare for a much needed surgery.   Isn't she precious?



If you would like to learn more about the New Day Foster Home , you can visit their website at:

http://www.newdaycreations.com/foster/index.html

Now that we have been matched with our kiddo, we'd like to find someone who is interested in taking over our sponsorship of Melody.  Please contact me if you are interested.

Below are links to some of the other various charities working to improve the lives of orphans in China:

Half the Sky Foundation:  http://www.halfthesky.org/

Love Without Boundaries:  http://www.lovewithoutboundaries.com/

Philip Hayden Foundation:  http://www.chinaorphans.org/